Recent content by PeterFalth

If the Power button is like the one in a powermac G5 the wires are power, led and a common ground. Find out which are power and ground, connect them to your motherboards power pins. The remaining led wire needs to be connected to the plus pin of the led pins. No ground is needed on the MB led -...

I have done that but in a PowerMac G5 case. In the Mac Pro you would probably have to discard the disk holders and palce your disks somewhere else. Here is a picture to show how small the case can look with a big MB I have a totally uncut case so had to place the MB accordingly. It was a...

Hello, I have also done a build with an intel server board a S2600CP. I had the same problem, power led always on. After some experimenting I found a simple solution. I connected the power led + to the HDD led +. Now it is on when the power is on. It is not blinking when the disks are...

I would strongly suggest not to split up the ground in 2 parts. Electrically it is not needed, and there is a risk of shorting the MB if you connect it wrongly. Here I am speaking from my own experience! On my G5 I connected the power switch and ground to the MB power on pins. The single power...

Hi, I have successfully solved this with two different motherboards with a simple trick. Connect the power led cable to the HDD pin! First thing. There are 3 wires from the power and led button. One common ground and on each for power button and led. Do not split the ground in 2 wires to fit...

Hi I have a completely uncut case. Outside it is 100% original. From the back I have working usb2 and also 2 ethernet. I used the modemport for a second ethernet. Sound is from the GPU via HDMI. I also added a usb3 card. On the front I have working usb and on/off switch. To get this working I...

What a coincidence, two Peters build each a Powermac with the same unusual MB! I think it took me a moth to decide how I wanted to place the MB. I have a broken one that I used to try out different positions measure and made drawings, also some CAD drawings. I also wanted a completely uncut...

Hi, Nice to see your build. I have also done one with the same MB. I have more powerful processors E5-2670v1 and 128GB of RAM. Interesting to see that you placed your board high up and the power supply in the bottom. After a lot of testing I did the opposite, MB down and power supply and...

Yes they are piled on each other. on the top I put 4 screws on the bottom to get some distance between them. Forn me it was no problem to discard the optical drive. I almost never use it. As I have a long PSU 18 cm and it is sittin some cm inside the case there was almost no space between the...

I have had the same problems with my recent G5 mod. I have an extra large MB 13x12 inch. It makes the G% case look very small! In the end I decided to skip the optical drive and instead put a Icy Dock flexidock 2.5 hdd bay there. rotated 90 degrees. It fits 4 2.5 inch drives (ssd or hdd). It is...